Openreach
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Openreach boss on minimum speed guarantees & building Britain’s ultra-fast broadband network
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To ensure households and businesses in more remote and rural parts of the country aren’t excluded from the digital economy because of slow or unreliable broadband, ministers plan to guarantee all broadband customers a minimum download speed of 10Mbps by 2020.
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BT’s rivals renew calls for “legally separate” Openreach
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A coalition of telecoms firms and trade groups, including Sky, TalkTalk, and Vodafone, has renewed calls for BT’s Openreach network business to be hived off into a “legally separate company”.
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Three/O2 merger blocked by European competition authorities
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Plans to merge the two networks were announced last January in response to the news that BT was to buy EE, the UK’s largest mobile operator. The phone and broadband giant had been in talks with the owners of both EE and O2 before ultimately deciding to pursue EE.
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BT pledges Fibre to the Premises and G.fast for 12m homes and businesses
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In addition to FTTP, which will be available to around 2m new-build residential and businesses premises, the telecoms giant will deploy G.fast technology on its existing copper and fibre network.
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BT now offering UK’s fastest entry-level broadband
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BT has boosted the speeds available on its entry-level fibre broadband service to 52Mbps, making it the fastest starter package available from any UK fixed line provider.
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BT’s superfast broadband now available to 25 million premises
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Openreach, the BT subsidiary which powers most of the UK’s ISPs, today announced that more than 25 millions homes are now able to access its superfast fibre broadband service.